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caption in a table cell
I've created a table and given it a title using captions. Now I want
to insert a caption into the first column of each row of the table. When I place my cursor in a cell and go to Insert - Reference - Caption, Word 2003 selects the entire table and only allows the new caption to go either above or below the table, but not in the table cell. Is there any way to put a caption in an individual table cell? |
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Is your table wrapped?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "janh" wrote in message ups.com... I've created a table and given it a title using captions. Now I want to insert a caption into the first column of each row of the table. When I place my cursor in a cell and go to Insert - Reference - Caption, Word 2003 selects the entire table and only allows the new caption to go either above or below the table, but not in the table cell. Is there any way to put a caption in an individual table cell? |
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I'm not sure what a "wrapped" table is. Text wraps within each cell.
My problem happens even when I just create a test table in a blank document and try to insert a caption in a cell. |
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Table Properties | Table: Is text wrapping set to None or Around?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "janh" wrote in message ups.com... I'm not sure what a "wrapped" table is. Text wraps within each cell. My problem happens even when I just create a test table in a blank document and try to insert a caption in a cell. |
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Text wrapping for the table is set to NONE.
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Okay, I've tried this, and I get the same result. Insert the caption above
or below, then cut and paste into the table. Sorry. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "janh" wrote in message oups.com... Text wrapping for the table is set to NONE. |
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An inserted caption is logically related to the captioned object - inside a
cell what is the object you are trying to caption? You can add a caption to, say, a picture in a cell. You can manually create something which looks like a caption in an (otherwise) empty cell. What is it that you are trying to achieve? -- Enjoy, Tony "janh" wrote in message ups.com... I've created a table and given it a title using captions. Now I want to insert a caption into the first column of each row of the table. When I place my cursor in a cell and go to Insert - Reference - Caption, Word 2003 selects the entire table and only allows the new caption to go either above or below the table, but not in the table cell. Is there any way to put a caption in an individual table cell? |
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Suzanne,
That works for me!! I created a caption outside the table and then pasted it inside that table on multiple rows. Hitting F9 forces an update to the number in the field code. Thanks very much. In reference to Tony's email, I'm an engineer trying to make a simple test case matrix in a table. Each row of my table defines a test case. I'm simply using the caption as an identifying mark for the information in the row of the table. Then in the text of the document I can use cross-reference to refer to specific test cases in the table. Captions ensures that if I insert new test cases, that my cross references are still valid. There are database applications that support this type of thing but Word is excellent for doing this on a smaller scale. Eventually I'd like to "freeze" my captions (with their numeric IDs) somewhat like "paste as value" in excel, but that's something for another day. Jan Jan |
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Good use. SEQ fields alone, of course, would provide updating numbers, but
an actual caption label does facilitate cross-references. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "janh" wrote in message oups.com... Suzanne, That works for me!! I created a caption outside the table and then pasted it inside that table on multiple rows. Hitting F9 forces an update to the number in the field code. Thanks very much. In reference to Tony's email, I'm an engineer trying to make a simple test case matrix in a table. Each row of my table defines a test case. I'm simply using the caption as an identifying mark for the information in the row of the table. Then in the text of the document I can use cross-reference to refer to specific test cases in the table. Captions ensures that if I insert new test cases, that my cross references are still valid. There are database applications that support this type of thing but Word is excellent for doing this on a smaller scale. Eventually I'd like to "freeze" my captions (with their numeric IDs) somewhat like "paste as value" in excel, but that's something for another day. Jan Jan |
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